{"product_id":"9781351570909","title":"Cosmos and Image in the Renaissance: French Love Lyric and Natural-philosophical Poetry","description":"Renaissance images could be real as well as linguistic. Human  beings were often believed to be an image of the cosmos, and the  sun an image of God. Kathryn Banks explores the implications of  this for poetic language and argues that linguistic images were a  powerful tool for rethinking cosmic conceptions. She reassesses  the role of natural-philosophical poetry in France, focusing upon  its most well-known and widely-read exponent, Guillaume de  Saluste Du Bartas.Through a sustained analysis of Maurice Sceve's Delie , Banks also rethinks love lyric's oft-noted use of the beloved as image of the poet.  Cosmos and Image  makes an original contribution to our understanding of Renaissance  thinking about the cosmic, the human, and the divine. It also  proposes a mode of reading other Renaissance texts, and reflects  at length upon the relation of 'literature' to history, to the  history of science, and to political turmoil.","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46418680807665,"sku":"9781351570909","price":64.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781351570909_p0.jpg?v=1765557996","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781351570909","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}